{"id":481540,"date":"2022-04-02T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T05:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=481540"},"modified":"2022-04-02T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T05:08:59","slug":"petrol-and-diesel-sales-surge-as-dealers-stock-up-ahead-of-rise-in-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-and-diesel-sales-surge-as-dealers-stock-up-ahead-of-rise-in-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol and diesel sales surge as dealers stock up ahead of rise in prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Petrol and diesel sales increased 9% and 10%, respectively, year-on-year in March as dealers stocked up on fuel ahead of an expected sharp rise in retail prices.<\/p>\n<p>Consumption of petrol was 14% higher than in March 2019 while that of diesel was 5% higher, per the preliminary sales data from state-run oil companies that control nearly 90% of retail sales in the country. These sales figures represent dispatches from companies&#8217; depots and not retail purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Petrol and diesel sales increased 9% and 10%, respectively, year-on-year in March as dealers stocked up on fuel ahead of an expected sharp rise in retail prices. Consumption of petrol was 14% higher than in March 2019 while that of diesel was 5% higher, per the preliminary sales data from state-run oil companies that control nearly 90% of retail sales in the country. These sales figures represent dispatches from companies&#8217; depots and not retail purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}